Growth Metrics

Shake Shack (SHAK) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Shake Shack (SHAK) has disclosed FCF Margin for 12 consecutive years, with 17.15% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Margin rose 1492.0% to 17.15% in Q3 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 8.99%, a 190.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 11.48%, down 2514.0% from a year prior.
  • FCF Margin was 17.15% for Q3 2025 at Shake Shack, down from 18.23% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 18.23% in Q2 2025 to a low of 10.63% in Q4 2022.
  • A 5-year average of 5.48% and a median of 8.42% in 2022 define the central range for FCF Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Margin: tumbled -1703bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 2514bps in 2023.
  • Shake Shack's FCF Margin stood at 8.85% in 2021, then dropped by -20bps to 10.63% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 237bps to 14.51% in 2023, then dropped by -6bps to 13.72% in 2024, then increased by 25bps to 17.15% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SHAK's FCF Margin are 17.15% (Q3 2025), 18.23% (Q2 2025), and 0.58% (Q1 2025).